Daily Scripture Analysis

Please press here to listen to the homily or download Twenty-first Sunday – Year A – Ordinary Time   Readings: Isa 22:15, 19-23; Rom 11:33-36; Mt 16:13-20. 1/ Reading I: RSV Isaiah 22:15 Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts, “Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him: 19 I will thrust you from your office, and you will be cast down from your station. 20 In that day I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, 21 and I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your … Read more

Please press here to listen to the homily or download Saturday – Twentieth Week – OT2 Readings: Eze 43:1-7a; Mt 23:1-12. Reading 1 (Eze 43:1-7a): The angel led me to the gate which faces the east, and there I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east. I heard a sound like the roaring of many waters, and the earth shone with his glory. The vision was like that which I had seen when he came to destroy the city, and like that which I had seen by the river Chebar. I fell prone as the glory … Read more

Please press here to listen to the homily or download Friday – Twentieth Week – OT2   Readings: Eze 37:1-14; Mt 22:34-40. 1/ Reading I: RSV Ezekiel 37:1 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley; it was full of bones. 2 And he led me round among them; and behold, there were very many upon the valley; and lo, they were very dry. 3 And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I … Read more

Please press here to listen to the homily or download Thursday – Twentieth Week – OT2 Readings: Eze 36:23-28; Mt 22:1-14. Reading 1 (Eze 36:23-28): Thus says the LORD: I will prove the holiness of my great name, profaned among the nations, in whose midst you have profaned it. Thus the nations shall know that I am the LORD, says the Lord GOD, when in their sight I prove my holiness through you. For I will take you away from among the nations, gather you from all the foreign lands, and bring you back to your own land. I will sprinkle clean … Read more

Please press here to listen to the homily or download Wednesday – Twentieth Week – OT2   Readings: Eze 34:1-11; Mt 20:1-16. 1/ First Reading: NAB Ezekiel 34:1 Thus the word of the LORD came to me: 2 Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, in these words prophesy to them (to the shepherds): Thus says the Lord GOD: Woe to the shepherds of Israel who have been pasturing themselves! Should not shepherds, rather, pasture sheep? 3 You have fed off their milk, worn their wool, and slaughtered the fatlings, but the sheep you have not pastured. 4 … Read more

Please press here to listen to the homily or download Tuesday – Twentieth Week – OT2   Readings: Eze 28:1-10; Mt 19:23-30. 1/ First Reading: NAB Ezekiel 28:1 Thus the word of the LORD came to me: 2 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus says the Lord GOD: Because you are haughty of heart, you say, “A god am I! I occupy a godly throne in the heart of the sea!”– And yet you are a man, and not a god, however you may think yourself like a god. 3 Oh yes, you are wiser than … Read more